THE GIFT OF LIFE GENESIS 126a 27 Then God said Let us make mankind in our image in our likeness So God created mankind in His own image in the image of God He created them male and female he created them ID: 603846
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I. MOTHERHOOD: WHAT A GIFT
THE GIFT OF
LIFESlide3
GENESIS 1:26a, 27
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness.” So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female he created them.Slide4
PSALM 139:13-17
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For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
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I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
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My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.Slide5
16
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
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How precious to me are your thoughts, God!Slide6
II. WE WANT TO CELEBRATE OUR
MOTHERS AND SAY “THANK YOU!”Slide7
III. WE ARE
“DUSTY”
CREATIONS,
WE CHOOSE
TO REMEMBER THE
GOOD
.Slide8
PSALM 103:13-18
13
As a father has compassion on his children, so the
Lord
has compassion on those who fear him;
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for he knows how we are formed,
he remembers that we are dust.
15
The life of mortals is like grass,
they flourish like a flower of the field;Slide9
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the wind blows over it and it is gone,
and its place remembers it no more.
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But from everlasting to everlasting the
Lord
’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children—
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with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.Slide10
IV. THE LORD HAS BLESSED US AND PLACED US IN
LIFE
AND TIME BY HIS DESIGN
…BE
THANKFUL
!Slide11
1
Shout for joy to the
Lord, all the earth.
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Worship the
Lord
with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
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Know that the
Lord
is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his
[
a
]
;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.Slide12
V. LIFE IS FULL OF
CHALLENGES
, EVEN MARY HAD CHALLENGES
LUKE 2:41-25Slide13Slide14
VI. LIFE IS FULL OF CHALLENGES AND DIFFICULTIES, CHOOSE GOD’S WAY OF
FAITH
,
TRUST
AND
JOY.Slide15
JAMES 1:2-5
2
…when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy.
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For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.
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So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.
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If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and He will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking.Slide16
VII. ALWAYS
SERVE
AND WORSHIP
GOD WHO LOVES YOU WITH AN
UNFAILING
LOVE.Slide17
PSALM 27:8,10
v. 8 - My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face,
Lord
, I will seek.
v. 10 -
Though my father and mother forsake me, the
Lord
will receive me.Slide18
VIII. CONFESS AND
RESOLVE
TO FOLLOW CHRIST IN HUMILITY
,
FORGIVENESS
AND
LOVE.Slide19
“
Our heavenly Father, who by thy love has made us,
and through your love has kept us, and in your love would make us perfectly complete: We humbly confess that we have not loved you with all our heart and soul and mind and strength, and that we have not loved one another as Christ has loved us. Your life is within our souls, but our selfishness has hindered your work in us. We have not lived by faith. We have resisted your Spirit. We have neglected your
inspirations…Slide20
Forgive what we have been; help us to amend what we are; and in your Spirit direct what we shall be; that you may come into the full glory of your creation, in us and in all men; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”Slide21
WOMEN OF CROSS ROADS, WE LOVE YOU AND ARE THANKFUL FOR YOU!!!